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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2023 Agenda

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:02:16 +0000

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2022 Agenda

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:02:08 +0000

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2021 Agenda

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:02:49 +0000

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2019 Agenda

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:02:54 +0000

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2018 Agenda

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:02:22 +0000

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2017 Agenda

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:02:28 +0000

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…

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Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:02:24 +0000

[**Today, we’re running a “best of” Magnus Mondays post, reprising a popular topic of the series. Magnus returns next week with new content for February.] In a recent article, I…

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Best Of 2024: Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:02:23 +0000

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

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Magnus Mondays — When Procurement Tech Projects Fail

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:02:14 +0000

A big IT project has been all over the news in Sweden recently. Two regions (a region is a fairly large public entity that is responsible for public healthcare and…

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Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control? Why Not Both?

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:02:12 +0000

For the last decade or so, the go-to solution for automating the Procure to Pay (P2P) process has been … wait for it … P2P suites. The P2P process covers…

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Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:00:22 +0000

As one of the few industry analysts with roughly a quarter century focused on and working in procurement, it was surprising to me how little I knew about the multi-billion…

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Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — It’s Time to Improve eSourcing Adoption

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:02:35 +0000

[**Over the next few weeks, we’ll be running “best of” Magnus Mondays posts, reprising some of the most popular topics of the series. Magnus returns with new content in August.]…

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Magnus Mondays — The Procurement Data Paradox

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:02:29 +0000

“Data is the new oil” has been spouted as a truism for a number of years. This is primarily due to the promises of all the nice things AI will…

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Procurement 2024 BIG Predictions (Part 1): Global Economy, Procurement Automation, Digital Strategy

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 31 May 2024 10:02:22 +0000

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Procurement-themed report, “Procurement 2024: BIG Trends and Predictions.” Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the…

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Magnus Mondays — The Slow Evolution of eSourcing Is Finally Speeding Up

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 06 May 2024 10:02:25 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, my procurement technology career began years ago in eSourcing. I worked for a company called IBX (which was first acquired by Capgemini that later sold it…

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Magnus Mondays — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:02:56 +0000

Last week I tackled the question of what to do with a failed P2P implementation. This week I’ll be addressing another common question: Is it a good idea to build…

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Magnus Mondays: Direct Materials P2P — Is That a Thing?

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:02:55 +0000

Today I’m wrapping up our mini-series on direct materials and what differentiates it from indirect by looking at the transactional side — also known as procure to pay (P2P). Because…

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Magnus Mondays: It’s Time to Improve eSourcing Adoption

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:02:42 +0000

When I first started reading CPO Rising more than a decade ago, I remember Ardent’s founder and chief research officer, Andrew Bartolini, introducing the concept of eSourcing 2.0, which is…

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Magnus Mondays: The Proliferation of Procurement Solutions

Magnus Bergfors — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:02:33 +0000

A little more than a decade ago when I joined Gartner and started out as an analyst, there were basically a handful of vendors that mattered and another handful that…

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Ardent Partners Hires Magnus Bergfors, former Gartner Analyst

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:05:51 +0000

[Publisher’s Note: It goes without saying that we’re excited to make today’s announcement. I have known Magnus for more than a decade, first as the primary procurement analyst at rival…

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CPO Rising 2023: Procurement’s Top Achievements in Last 25 Years (Part 2)

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:02:13 +0000

Today, we feature our ongoing coverage of this year’s 18th-annual CPO-themed report, where my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with chief procurement officers (CPOs) and other procurement…

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Throwback Thursday: Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Operational Procurement

Phil Bartolini — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:00:36 +0000

[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback Thursday” series with another look at a past entry on the skills needed for today’s procurement leaders.] Most Chief Procurement Officers love to invest in their…

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Sourcing Smarter to Accelerate Procurement’s Impact (New Webinar)

Phil Bartolini — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:00:14 +0000

[Editor’s Note: Join Ardent Partners on October 1st at 2 PM ET for the Sourcing Smarter: Accelerating Procurement’s Impact webinar, sponsored by Scout RFP.] In the last six months, procurement…

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20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – apexanalytix

Phil Bartolini — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:00:18 +0000

Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site. That first 2020 series…

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20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – Ivalua

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:00:36 +0000

Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site. That first 2020 series…

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20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – Corcentric

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:00:57 +0000

Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site.…

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Throwback Thursday: Demand Aggregation – Multiple Requisitions

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:00:46 +0000

Ardent Partners takes the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Please click here to read our approach in these uncertain times. *** Editor’s note: In light of the COVID-19…

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Throwback Thursday: Demand Aggregation – Multiple Requisitions

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:00:31 +0000

Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…

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Five Must-Have Features in an e-Procurement System (Guest Post)

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:44 +0000

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Finly, an expense management and e-Procurement solutions provider. Its solution suite, FinlyFinance suite, automates business processes, such as order processing, vendor payments, invoicing,…

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Manufacturing Success: How Procurement can Leverage Industry 4.0 to Manage MRO Spend

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:00:23 +0000

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Xeeva‘s blog a couple of weeks ago. Xeeva is a Michigan-based provider of sourcing and procurement solutions, and a co-sponsor of the CPO Rising…

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Throwback Thursday: Demand Aggregation – Multiple Requisitions

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:00:40 +0000

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Technology Round-Up — March 13, 2019

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:00:45 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…

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Artificial Intelligence for Procurement Gets a Reality Check

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:00:25 +0000

Over the past few years (it’s hard to say since when, exactly), the procurement technology industry and the business technology industry as a whole have embraced the term “artificial intelligence,”…

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Technology Round-Up — February 6, 2019

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:00:35 +0000

After a brief hiatus, CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If…

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Breaking News: Coupa Acquires Hiperos, Rounds out its Third-Party Risk Management Offering

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:15:27 +0000

This morning, Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), the San Francisco-based spend management solutions provider, announced that it has purchased Hiperos, the New Jersey-based provider of third-party risk management (“3PM”) solutions in the cloud, for an undisclosed…

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P2P Technology Round-Up – November 21, 2018

Phil Bartolini — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:00:07 +0000

Now back to our regular scheduled programming…Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, procure-to-pay (P2P), and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If…

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Ardent Partners’ Annual “CPO Rising” Summit Kicks Off with Powerful Procurement Insights

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:00:34 +0000

Chief Procurement Officers from North America and Around the Globe Convene to Share Experiences and Best Practices BOSTON, November 7 — Today, more than 135 procurement professionals and executives will…

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Aquiired!! Coupa Buys Aquiire and Gains Real-Time Catalog Search Capabilities

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:00:59 +0000

Earlier this week, Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), the San Francisco-based spend management solutions provider, informed us that it has purchased Cincinnati-based Aquiire, the real-time procure-to-pay (P2P) and supplier management solution provider (formerly known as Vinimaya) for an undisclosed sum. Ardent Partners…

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Ardent’s Analysis: Coupa Acquires VMS Provider DCR Workforce

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:00:49 +0000

Last Tuesday afternoon, leading business spend management and cloud solution provider, Coupa Software, announced that it had acquired the “technology assets” of Vendor Management System (“VMS”), DCR Workforce (“DCR”). Terms…

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What’s in the Secret Sauce? How BirchStreet Serves P2P to the Hospitality Industry

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:00:57 +0000

We recently spoke with friend of the site and current SVP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Birchstreet, Sundar K., for a briefing that covered the history and progression of…

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Technology Round-Up – August 9, 2018

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:00:06 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…

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“Punching In” to Real-Time Procure-to-Pay with Aquiire

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:00:03 +0000

The Ardent Partners team recently participated in a briefing with the executive team at Aquiire to get a general update on the company, its recent successes from the first quarter of 2018,…

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BuyerQuest: Going Beyond Punch-Out

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:00:54 +0000

The Ardent Partners’ analyst team recently received a briefing and product demonstration from representatives from BuyerQuest, a Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solutions provider. Doug Blossey, senior vice president of corporate strategy, and Kyle Muskoff, vice…

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Technology Round-Up – June 28, 2018

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:00:56 +0000

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Procurement 2018 Trends & Predictions Roundtable Discussion – Part I

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:00:34 +0000

A few weeks ago, I shared with you some of the BIG procurement trends that we at Ardent Partners, in conjunction with our sponsors, Beeline and Ivalua, shared on our…

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Determine: Enhancing P2P and More in 2018

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:00:57 +0000

Members of Ardent Partners’ analyst team took a briefing from the team at Determine covering the company’s recent procure-to-pay (P2P) product enhancements and its product roadmap for 2018. The briefing was…

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CPO Rising 2017 Summit Perspectives – Ten Ways Real-Time Data Transforms Procurement to Deliver Tremendous Savings and Value, from Aquiire

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:00:05 +0000

This year’s CPO Rising 2017 Summit featured exciting roundtable sessions where attendees got to exchange ideas and talk about innovative strategies to help improve the performance of their procurement department.…

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Technology Round-Up – December 7, 2017

Phil Bartolini — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:00:56 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

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CPO Rising 2017 Summit Perspectives – Enabling Smarter Procurement with Ivalua

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:00:47 +0000

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Technology Round-Up – November 16, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:00:26 +0000

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Aquiire’s Move to “Real-Time” Procurement

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:00:46 +0000

Last week the Ardent Partners team participated a briefing with the executive team at Aquiire to get a general update on the company, its recent successes, and the general direction…

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Technology Round-Up – September 21, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:00:36 +0000

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CPO Rising 2017: Tools of the Trade

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:00:55 +0000

Publisher’s Note: We recently published my twelfth annual CPO-themed report, CPO Rising 2017: Tools of the Trade. Today’s article is part of an ongoing series focused on the report’s key…

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Technology Round-Up – August 10, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:00:34 +0000

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Technology Round-Up – June 29, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:00:46 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…

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Technology Round-Up – June 8, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:00:35 +0000

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of procurement and supply management solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a…

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Technology Round-up – May 22 (Coupa Inspire Edition)

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 22 May 2017 10:00:05 +0000

Coupa Inspire was held last week May 16-18 in San Franciso. Ardent Partners analysts were in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software made many announcements. Today’s Technology Round-up is dedicated to several…

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Technology Round-Up – May 4, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 04 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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Technology Round-Up – March 9, 2017

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:00:37 +0000

Determine Announces Financial Results for Q3 2017 On February 9, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the third quarter of Fiscal Year…

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Instant Analysis: Tradeshift to Acquire IBX Business Network

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:00:50 +0000

Today, March 8, San Francisco-based Tradeshift, the cloud-based business network, announced that it has entered into an agreement with CapGemini to acquire the latter’s IBX Business Network (“IBX”). The deal is expected to close in…

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Technology Round-Up – December 6, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:00:28 +0000

Basware Launches Catalog Management Service, Marketplace On November 29, Basware, the Finland-based provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay (P2P) solutions, announced that it has launched Marketplace, a catalog management service on the Basware Network. Marketplace had already…

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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 10:00:50 +0000

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

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Technology Round-Up – August 25, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:00:44 +0000

Determine Announces Financial Results for Q1 2017 On August 10, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal…

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Going Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:00:04 +0000

The Rio 2016 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I’ve been doing my best to watch as much as I can (how about those American swimmers from…

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Technology Round-Up – August 5, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 10:00:51 +0000

Basware Refreshes Verian eProcurement Solution Suite On August 2, Basware, the Finland-based provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay solutions, announced the summer release of Verian’s eProcurement solution suite following its acquisition of the company earlier this…

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Technology Round-Up – July 21, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:00:38 +0000

Determine Updates Cloud-based Contract and Source-to-Pay Platform On July 18, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced several updates to Determine Cloud Platform, its…

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Tradeshift Announces Go, Hyper Acquisition at Innovation Day

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:00:47 +0000

On Wednesday, June 22, San Francisco-based Tradeshift held an “Innovation Day” at the Hotel Eventi in Mid-Town Manhattan where they made several major product and brand announcements and focused on its main…

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Technology Round-Up – June 17, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:00:51 +0000

ESM Solutions Announces New Sourcing Tool On May 18, ESM Solutions, the Pennsylvania-based company that provides SaaS-based sourcing and P2P solutions, announced the release of a new suite of sourcing solutions aptly called “ESM…

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Technology Round-Up – March 3, 2016

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:00:52 +0000

Data Intensity Acquires Enrich, Inatech to Enhance Procurement Solutions On February 24, Bedford, MA-based Data Intensity, which provides cloud-based, managed, and professional services for Oracle implementation, announced that it has…

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Technology Round-Up – December 10, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:00:02 +0000

SciQuest Updates Spend Automation Suite with Strategic Sourcing Capabilities Last week, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers automated spend management solutions for procurement practitioners, announced that it has updated its spend automation suite…

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The Future of Work is Here: The State of Contingent Workforce Management is Now Available

Christopher Dwyer — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:00:14 +0000

Editor’s Note: We are excited to announce that the third annual edition of our landmark State of Contingent Workforce Management research report is now available. This year’s report discusses the…

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Selectica Rebrands as Determine, Plans to Consolidate Solutions onto One Platform

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:00:51 +0000

On Friday, October 16, Selectica, Inc, the San Mateo, CA-based provider of supply management solutions, and the parent company of Iasta and b-pack, announced that it has rebranded itself as…

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Driving Procurement Transformation Upstream with Procure-to-Pay

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:00:31 +0000

Today’s article is centered on our recent Sailing Downstream: Why “Source-to-Settle” Defines Procurement Transformation in 2015 report, sponsored by Zycus, and available for download here (registration required). This report argues that it is preferential for…

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4 More eProcurement Articles You Should Read

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:00:04 +0000

CPO Rising has been actively publishing thought leadership, technology analysis, and supply management best practices for many years and the result has been a steady stream of valuable content that…

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4 eProcurement Articles You Should Read

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:00:45 +0000

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Technology Round-Up – September 9, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:00:18 +0000

DocuSign and Revitas Integrate Solutions for Enhanced Contract Management Earlier this summer, Revitas, a Philadelphia-based provider of revenue acceleration solutions, and DocuSign, the San Francisco-based provider of Digital Transaction Management (DTM)…

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Research Preview – Sailing Downstream: How Source-to-Settle Defines Procurement Transformation in 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 28 May 2015 10:00:14 +0000

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Breaking News: Basware to Acquire Procserve for EUR 25.9 Million

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:00:13 +0000

On Wednesday, April 8, Basware, the Finland-based provider of procure-to-pay (P2P) and e-invoicing solutions, announced that it has signed an agreement with Procserve to acquire the UK-based public sector e-procurement solutions provider…

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Technology Round-Up – March 27, 2015

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:00:29 +0000

SciQuest Announces New Benchmarking Solution, Updates to Spend Automation Platform On March 11, SciQuest (NASDAQ: SQI),the North Carolina-based provider of automated, cloud-based spend management solutions, announced that it has partnered with SmartProcure to…

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Procurement Influencer Series: Gregory Mark of Hubwoo

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:00:20 +0000

As CEO of Hubwoo, Gregory Mark has witnessed the evolution of procurement technologies from the dot com bubble and burst to e-invoicing and e-procurement to spend analytics and the cloud.…

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Social Media and P2P: How Social Networks Develop and Strengthen Trading Partner Relationships

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:00:15 +0000

The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the most successful social networks can and should have the same impact in business communication and performance. As such, there is a remarkable opportunity…

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Sailing Downstream: Why Source-to-Settle Defines Procurement Transformation in 2015 (Webinar)

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:00:35 +0000

For sure, enterprises as a whole and procurement teams in particular can log significant financial and operational improvements through implementing basic strategic sourcing processes, such as spend analysis, sourcing/ eSourcing,…

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Best of 2014: Alicia Ralston: Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration at ADM

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:00:29 +0000

Happy New Year! Our Best of 2014 series continues below: This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the…

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Alicia Ralston: Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration at Archer Daniels Midland

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:00:06 +0000

This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers…

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GSA Takes the EASi Way, Lends the Federal Acquisition Service an ASSIST

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:00:42 +0000

Earlier this month, senior leadership from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that the agency has begun deploying two new IT systems that will help federal acquisition and procurement…

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Zycus: A Briefing in Several Parts

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:00:03 +0000

Ardent Partners receives regular briefings from most of the solution providers in the broader supply management market. As a firm, we’ve covered the distinct application markets for years and have…

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Technology Round-Up – July 23, 2014

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:00:49 +0000

Basware Releases Second Quarter Earnings Report Earlier this month, Basware, the Finnish Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and eInvoicing solution provider, held its second quarter earnings call, led by their CEO Esa Tihila…

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CPO Rising 2014: Convergence – Top Challenges in 2014 (IV)

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:00:47 +0000

Ardent Partners recently published our annual CPO Rising report (entitled CPO Rising 2014: Convergence) and of all the reports we publish this year, the focus of this report is exactly geared towards our…

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CPO Rising’s 2014 Hot Tech Prospects – BuyerQuest

Andrew Bartolini — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:00:44 +0000

Last Thursday, the 30 NBA teams spent an evening drafting the top college and international prospects in the world of basketball. Drafting the right player can potentially impact a team’s…

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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Operational Procurement

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 29 May 2014 10:00:27 +0000

Most Chief Procurement Officers love to invest in their people. So, in that vein, over the next few weeks we will be analyzing the key skills and capabilities (or higher-level competencies)…

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Tracking the Evolution of the VMS Platform

Christopher Dwyer — Wed, 07 May 2014 10:00:36 +0000

Discussions regarding contingent workforce management (CWM) technology are frequent here at CPO Rising, and often revolve not only around the benefits and results that enterprises achieve by utilizing these solutions,…

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Coupa Inspire 2014: Coupa’s New Language of Success

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:00:46 +0000

Earlier this month I attended Coupa’s user conference, Coupa INSPIRE, in San Francisco. This second annual conference built upon the success of last year’s event and provided great insight into…

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Driving Value through a Connected P2P Process – Part II: Hire a P2P Lead

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:00:52 +0000

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on CPO Rising because of its central importance to Chief Procurement Officers and procurement operations. We also see it is as a “Hot…

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What Will Take You “Swifter, Higher, Faster” in 2014?

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:00:48 +0000

The XXII Winter Games are still going strong in Sochi, Russia and will continue through this Sunday. I must admit that I have not watched as much as I would…

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Driving Value Through a Connected P2P Process – Part 1

Andrew Bartolini — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:00:22 +0000

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on CPO Rising because of its central importance to Chief Procurement Officers and procurement operations. We also see it is as a “Hot…

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GEP Gets SMART with Its Solution Suite (Part 2)

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:00:03 +0000

GEP, the longstanding industry provider of procurement services and solutions, announced last week the launch of “SMART by GEP,” what the company is calling “the first unified sourcing and procurement…

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GEP Gets SMART with Its Solution Suite (Part 1)

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:00:00 +0000

GEP, the longstanding industry provider of procurement services and solutions, announced on Tuesday the launch of “SMART by GEP,” what the company is calling “the first unified sourcing and procurement…

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BravoSolution and Basware Form Global Partnership to Attack the Source-to-Pay Market

Andrew Bartolini — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:00:54 +0000

After months of work at the executive levels within each company, BravoSolution and Basware yesterday announced the formation of a new global partnership that will be focused on jointly attacking the…

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Coupa Inspire ’13: The Real Thing

Andrew Bartolini — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:00:19 +0000

Earlier this week, I attended Coupa’s inaugural user conference, Inspire,in San Francisco. It was a winning and impressive display that blended executive and product presentations with client success stories on…

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Supply Management: Big Trends & Predictions for 2013 (Solutions)

Andrew Bartolini — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:30:35 +0000

Today, we continue our multi-part series on Supply Management: Big Trends & Predictions for 2013 with a look at supply management solutions. Click here to read Part One of this…

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